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Hoogste merken in OFT prijszettingssonde

Dinsdag, 29 April, 2008

pricefix.jpgDoor James Hall en Richard Fletcher | Ongeveer 100 belangrijke huishoudenmerken, met inbegrip van PG Uiteinden, Coca-Cola en Aquafresh, zijn op het centrum van een onderzoek van beweringen van prijszetting, kan de Dagelijkse Telegraaf onthullen.

Zij zijn inbegrepen op een klaplijst van kruidenierswinkelproducten en toiletries die door onderzoekers van het Bureau van Eerlijke Handelspraktijken worden opgesteld, die aan vijf bladen van A4 document lopen.

Het het toiletdocument van Andrex, de Hoogtepunten Anadin extra, Cadbury en het brood Warburtons zijn onder dozens dagelijkse punten.

Verscheidene belangrijke supermarkten - met inbegrip van Tesco, Asda, Morrisons en Sainsbury - waren vorige week overvallen door OFT onderzoekers en advocaten amid verdenking dat de detailhandelaars hadden samengezworen om de prijs van huishoudenproducten te bevestigen.

Enkele grootste multinationale ondernemingen zijn OFT ook betrokken bij het onderzoek.

De leveranciers - met inbegrip van Procter & Gok, de eigenaar kimberly-Clark van de V.S. van Coca-Cola, van GlaxoSmithKline, van Unilever en van Andrex - zijn verteld om het tarief inlichtingen aan de onderzoekers te verstrekken. Om het even welk vonden schuldig tot 10 percenten van hun jaarlijkse verkoop zou kunnen worden gezuiverd, die honderden miljoenen ponden zou zijn.

Het kon ook betekenen de consumenten honderden miljoenen ponden meer voor hun het winkelen hadden betaald dan zij zouden moeten hebben op een tijdstip waarop de inflatie van de voedselprijs reeds de jaarlijkse het winkelen van de gemiddelde familie rekening met bijna £800 heeft verhoogd.

De groepen van de consument vrezen dat de supermarkten en hun leveranciers uit de recente boom in globale voedselkosten voordeel hebben gehaald om hun prijzen op te blazen.

Die suggestie zal van bijzonder belang aan miljoenen huishoudens zijn die niet alleen met snel het toenemen kruidenierswinkelrekeningen worstelen - maar ook verhoogde hypotheek en energiekosten.

Philip Cullum, de waarnemende president van de Nationale Consumentenbond, de van de Overheid waakhond van de consument, zei: De „consumenten besteden vele miljoenen ponden aan deze dagelijkse punten en de klanten zullen worden gealarmeerd om te zien het verband tussen de bekendste bedrijven van een aantal van de OFT land onderzoekt.

„NCC let op het OFT onderzoek met duidelijke belangstelling.“

De leveranciers en de detailhandelaars zijn gegeven tot Juni om van de het tarief informatie OFT te voorzien die zij hebben gevraagd.

Er zijn ook suggesties dat de waakhond e-mail tussen detailhandelaars en leveranciers greep. Men gelooft dat sommige leveranciers op de klaplijst nog om door hebben OFT worden gecontacteerd.

The disclosure that the pricing of some of Britain’s most popular brands is being examined demonstrates just how wide-ranging the regulator’s new investigation is.

It is also running a separate investigation into price-fixing allegations surrounding dairy products and cigarettes.

John Bridgeman, a former OFT director general, said: “Supermarkets account for a huge amount of consumer expenditure. It is a £100 billion sector of the economy.

“There is no smoke without fire. The OFT is not going to go big on this unless it has something to go on.”

MySupermarket.co.uk, the comparison website, said supermarkets sell commonly-purchased goods at almost identical prices to each other.

At the same time, prices have risen substantially. Research by The Grocer magazine showed that a trolley-load of 150 items costs £241.50, a £10 increase on last year.

Prices in supermarkets have risen by 5.5 per cent since last April, according to official government data. For example, a 250g packet of mild cheddar cheese has gone up 17 per cent while a 500g packet of dried spaghetti has increased by 51 per cent.

The price of butter has risen by more than 50 per cent.

However, some health and beauty products are cheaper. The Grocer estimates that Fairy Liquid, made by Procter & Gamble, now costs 7 per cent less.

Other brands understood to be on the OFT list include Colgate Total toothpaste and Dove Moisturiser.

Biscuits manufactured by Northern Foods, one of the largest food producers and a major supplier to Marks & Spencer, are also there.

All the supermarkets and food manufacturers involved have vehemently denied any wrongdoing.

Senior retailers have dismissed the OFT’s latest probe as a “fishing expedition” and have reacted angrily to what they see as yet another high-profile OFT probe.

Shares in Tesco, Sainsbury and Morrison fell on news of the OFT investigation.

Its allegations contrast with the findings of the Competition Commission which will publish the results of its study of the grocery sector tomorrow.

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2 Responses to “Top brands in OFT price-fixing probe”

  1. Simon King
    Posted: Apr 29th, 2008 at 6:43 am | Link to this

    The OFT would not have gone public with this if there were not a grain of truth in this . We are struggling in the UK as inflation is rising the fastest that it has done since the early 1990s according to some reports and living in the UK myself i can say that i have seen my food shopping rise significantly in the past 6 months . This is just another way of the MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATIONS of taking advantage of the ordinary man and woman on the street , if its not the GOVERNMENT screwing us into the ground with thier taxes its the MEGA-CORPS that have an almost perfect monopoly on us , and in some ways its our own fault as we continue to pay these ridiculous prices that the MEGA-CORPS impose on us . Its about time that we realised that as consumers that we have POWER and we should use that POWER by not buying overpriced big named brands , would it realy kill us if we did not buy the big brand names and instead went for the cheaper alternative . The big brands would soon realise the message in fact the only language that they understand e.g. MONEY and PROFITS! . They would soon understand that message FAST and the prices would eventualy be greatly reduced . We have POWER and its about time we used it! .

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  2. Aldo
    Posted: Apr 29th, 2008 at 10:42 pm | Link to this

    Boycotting is the best solution but unfortunately the Brits are too thick to understand this, they seem only too happy for their Government to piss all over them without so much as a squeek… The word I’m looking for is SPINELESS

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